EARLY SETTLEMENT OF THE BRITISH ISLES BY CELTS, oe 
Strathaird, aird, high: the high strath. 
Strathglass, glass, grey : the grey strath. 
Strathearn, iar an: the strath of the western river. 
Tigh, a house, is present in such words as Tyndrum, tigh an 
druim: the house of the ridge. 
Tom, knoll, forms the first syllable in such words as Tomban, 
the white knoll ; Tombreck, the spotted knoll. 
Torr, a heap, appears in such words as Toraven, torr amhainn, the 
heap of the river ; Torantuire, torr an tuirc, the heap of the boar ; 
Torness, torr an ets, the heap of the casade. 
Tulach, a hill or knoll, forms the first syllable of such words as 
Tullochgorum, the blue hillock; Tillycoultry, tudach cul tir, the 
hillock of the back of the land. 
It is instructive to observe how in the names of the hills and 
valleys, of the lochs and rivers, of the prominent headlands and 
picturesque cascades of Scotland, the Gaelic of our time is undoub- 
tedly to be recognized ; and how the strongest link is thus established 
between the Scottish Gael of the nineteenth century and the Gael 
of it may be several centuries before the Christian era. 
The eary Irish annalists gave unbridled reins to a vigorous imagi- 
nation for the purpose of tracing the first settlers of Ireland from a 
very remote antiquity. Dr. Sullivan, in an article on Celtic Litera- 
ture in the Encyclopedia Britannica, thus remarks: “ In any case, 
the time has scarcely come for dissecting and analysing the curious 
tissues of legends . . . which constitute the mythical parts of 
Irish history. As in the case of other nations of middle and north 
Europe, the true chronological history began in Ireland either by 
contact with the Romans, or with the introduction of Christianity ; 
and like the medizval chronicles the genealogists tacked on the pedi- 
gree of Irish kins and chieftains to those of Genesis.” 
The Topography of Ireland furnishes the most satisfactory evidence 
ef purely Gaelic origin, and indicates that those who gave its names to 
the Topography of Ireland spoke the identical language which is now 
spoken in the Highlands of Scotland and in many parts of Ireland 
itself. The Scots, who gave the name to Scotland which it now has, 
came originally from Ireland. It is maintained that the word Scot 
is the Gaelic Scwit, a wanderer, and that from Scuit the Romans 
took the designation Scott. Robertson remarks that Ammianus 
Marcellinus is the first writer that mentions the Scots, and that he 
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